In Effort To Smear J.D. Vance, Kamala Supporters Attack Popular Child Care Tax Credit
“still trying to figure out the Dem angle here other than they expect (with good reason) that the media coverage will be so biased voters will not realize they are attacking one of Democrats’ own most popular agenda items.”
One would think that if the left would slow down for a few seconds to hear what they’re actually saying, then maybe they would start singing a much different tune, but it is simply not meant to be.
A perfect example of this revolves around the Democrat/Hollywood left attacks on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, over comments he made in September 2021 during a Tucker Carlson interview about how “childless cat ladies” who were “miserable at… the choices they’ve made” were “effectively running” (and ruining) the country:
Vance made the remarks in 2021 on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, as one of the “childless cat ladies” running the nation who “want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
The Ohio Republican added, “If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. pic.twitter.com/3DJY3pQTGe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 22, 2024
Five days before that interview and in comments conveniently not shared by his critics, Vance – who was a candidate for Senate at the time but not yet the nominee – was speaking at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and relayed a similar message, except in this one he was clear what type of childless women he wasn’t talking about:
“A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons…there are people of course for biological reasons, medical reasons that can’t have children. The target of these remarks is not them.”
As a new mom, my heart aches for women who are unable to bear children. @JDVance words are being taken out of context and unfairly attacked.
Here are his full comments from 2021:
"A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons…there are… https://t.co/Q0yfpQWNfc pic.twitter.com/JOWbiIQ7Qf
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) July 25, 2024
During that same speech, he also asked “Why is this just a normal fact of American life, that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?”
In an interview with Megyn Kelly late last week, Vance didn’t back down from what he’d previously said, and elaborated more on his position, explaining that “This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child”:
“I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.
It’s not a criticism of people who don’t have children.
I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn’t have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.”
Watch:
.@JDVance: I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.
It's not a criticism… pic.twitter.com/x1ZaLvxiAp
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 26, 2024
Because his critics including Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign think this is a gotcha moment with him on the issue of women and children, they’ve also pounced and seized on comments Vance made during a 2021 interview with Charlie Kirk in which he said people who have kids should have a lower tax burden (a point he also reiterated here). The official Kamala HQ Twitter/X account and other pro-Kamala Twitter/X users shared it:
JD Vance says adults without children should have their taxes raised because we should "punish the things that we think are bad" pic.twitter.com/25PPL9EwRU
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 26, 2024
BREAKING: In a stunning new leaked video, JD Vance claims that childless adults should pay more in taxes. It’s clear JD Vance wants to wage war against Americans. Retweet so all Americans see this devastating clip. pic.twitter.com/wGdfVOj9hF
— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) July 26, 2024
First things first: It wasn’t a “leaked” video. It’s been available for over three years now. Secondly, what Vance described is the child tax credit:
We've managed to get the Democratic party to effectively come out against one of the most popular policies in the country: the child tax credit https://t.co/gzstYeS6hO
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) July 26, 2024
Yes, still trying to figure out the Dem angle here other than they expect (with good reason) that the media coverage will be so biased voters will not realize they are attacking one of Democrats' own most popular agenda items. https://t.co/pSG9QngFdr
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) July 26, 2024
ABC News also tried a similar tactic, and got called out for it as well:
This is just the child tax credit, no? https://t.co/391wPNkOcJ
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 26, 2024
Further, as Megyn Kelly explained, the type of people Vance was referring to “should not be our leaders”:
The same ppl who didn’t want @JDVance to begin with are the ones pretending to care about his childless cat lady comments. His point was having kids is good for society & a segment of the left (eg AOC) believes it’s actually a moral failing – they should not be our leaders.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 26, 2024
For all of you still bitching about JD Vance’s childless cat lady remarks: KAMALA HARRIS SUPPORTS THE STERILIZATION & MUTILATION OF PERFECTLY HEALTHY MINOR CHILDREN.
GET A GRIP— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 27, 2024
It's almost like these people don't want young people starting families or something. Really weird stuff. https://t.co/b3dot3ZCOh
— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 27, 2024
It’s “weird” indeed.
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If you really want to see the d/prog and feminists flip out then suggest the child tax credit be limited to married couples and to widowed spouses.
He does word things, “interestingly “
Looks to me like verbal jiu-jitsu — Step 1: describe a progressive sacred cow in ways that will make progressives attack their own ideas, then Step 2: sit back and enjoy the show.
“If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
In fact, the left is waging war against children, be it abortion, maleducation and brainwashing, sex trafficking of illegal alien minors, drugs from the border, and last, but not least, gender “affirmation” mutilations.
Now they are going to tell us they care about kids?
It seems that the world is a bit better off when the likes of Kamala do not reproduce.
They do reproduce, however – via stealing your children’s hearts, minds, and souls, through the ‘public’ education system. They won’t do the hard work of birthing and raising them, but they will subvert them.
The left’s attacks on Vance are more than I expected so he must really be right over the target.
My goodness, how dare any politician proclaim that our tax policies and culture should be pro-family? He actually wants to create a system where young couples are encouraged to have children and raise them as healthy, educated and productive citizens.
The absolute horror.
No, Harris did not suggest that young people shouldn’t have children because of climate change. She suggested that some young people who might otherwise have had children aren’t having them, because of climate anxiety (which is of course caused entirely by left-wing opinion leaders telling them to be anxious).
You are disingenuously muddling the issue … as per your usual. She implies (and from her views one would be correct to assume) that the anxiety about the fiery death of our planet in global warming is justified, which would render her speaking from a position of arguing for it. Of course, you really have to hear her entire statement to get her full meaning (if she had any)
but, in lieu of that, her actions speak louder than any words and she is living the life of a woman who CHOSE not to have children, and whose main interest, these days, is in killing babies in the womb as much as she is able. It is what it is.
Now, we are all very, very familiar with the old hippie refrain of “I would never bring children into such an awful world as this,” and the modern left is just rehashing and regurgitating much of the hippy view, with a very dark, evil twist to it.
No, I am not muddling anything. Of course she believes the anxiety is justified because glowball warmening is real. Nonetheless, she never urged people not to have children because of it. She lamented the (alleged) fact that some people are making such a decision of their own accord.
I’ve seen no evidence that that’s even happening, but if it is then, even if one were to concede that “climate anxiety” is justified (which it isn’t), one would still want young people not to give up all hope, and certainly not to stop having children because of it.
Vance is, obviously, talking about women who CHOOSE to not have children. Interestingly, many of them have had abortions – often more than one. They have chosen to be childless, and when their plans were threatened because they were irresponsible and reckless, they just killed the child and then went on with their meaningless lives.
Nonetheless, the child tax credit, and any other incentives to have children (such as his proposal to allow parents to cast votes on their children’s behalf), aren’t and shouldn’t be available to those who have no children, regardless of the reason. That’s just common sense. You can’t say “Well, I should get this subsidy because I wanted to have children and couldn’t”.
If you want to smear JD, just quote the emails between him and his good pal who is a freaky transsexual women who dresses as a man.
So he got taken in by the Michael Browne hoax. That doesn’t speak well of his judgment ten years ago, But he’s undergone a lot of change in the interim, including adopting a new religion just five years ago. In fact one of the more interesting criticisms I’ve seen of Trump’s choice was that he’s still figuring out who he is, so how can the rest of us know? Self-discovery is a good thing, but perhaps he’s not yet ready for prime time.
As for his criticisms of Trump, in hindsight they seem way over the top, but at the time Trump’s record was that of a liberal Democrat, and the way he was speaking was like a parody of a Republican, like what a liberal Democrat might imagine would appeal to Republican audiences. If Hillary Clinton were to pretend to have suddenly converted to conservatism, I would expect her to speak like Trump was doing in those years. So Vance’s skepticism is understandable. Especially if he himself was still enough of a leftist to be taken in by the BLM lie.
Self discovery is not an unalloyed good. The suicide rate is high enough already.
Holy Wall of Text, Batman!
Attention spans are in short supply these days.
What? It’s two normal-sized paragraphs.
pick a target, polarize it then demand the target to live up to it’s own morals.
Please, democrats, please run against the child tax credit. Please run on raising taxes on American families, I’m sure that will go a long way.
I attack the credit too
going lefty is wrong
and this is why the rinos >swamp
Is it true Trump chose him because he liked his eyeliner and makeup?